Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 1900 Page: 3 of 4
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At Bud Day’s old stand. For a
quick, easy and clean shave, or the
latest style hair cutting, call there.
Also agent for best Laundry.
Prof. Ben L. Cox of the Canton
High school has been elected prin-
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please you. Send us your orders and they will be attended to proper-
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ly, or let us figure with you and we will satisfy you that the best and
cheapest place to get your printing done is at the
Is well supplied and up-to date in every respect. In fact
we are offering you an advantage you should appreciate,
and remember very distinctly that whosoever may ask you
why we are so busy, just tell ’em that Pure Goods, Best
Quality, Full Measure and Lowest Prices are the Factors.
Come to see us when in town.
Why not have your Job Printing
done with up-to-date type faces
and bran new Gordon Press. We
are prepared to do it at the low-
est possible prices. Get our esti-
mates on
BILL HEADS
NOTE HEADS
WEDDING CARDS
VISITING CARDS
LETTER HEADS
ENVELOPES
STATEMENTS
BUSINESS CAR DS
POSTERS
DODGERS, Etc.
Tundra Doings.
Tundra, Tex., May 21, 1900.
People are busy just now plowing
corn, chopping cotton and enter-
taining candidates. Doing more of
the latter.
Quite a throng of people from
here attended the memorial services
at Old Bethel last Friday. They
report having had a splendid time,
a good dinner and found the yard
in excellent condition.
Mr. Barber,our gin man, had the
misfortune of loosing one of his
fine mules last Friday morning.
Also Mr. Will Martin lost a fine
horse near the same time.
Miss Ora Phlen of Ben Wheeler
is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. J.
Fisher, this week.
Teen Fugate has just opened a
new barber shop in our quiet vil-
lage. No excuse for long hair and
shaggy faces.
Uncle Bill Sides continues to hit
the anvil and says he’s getting
something coming to him this fall.
Sometimes this fall never comes.
Miss Gertie Walsh of Jackson vis-
ited friends in Tundra Saturday
and Sunday.
Men’s Furnishings.
Mr. Tripp was turned loose and r
Mr. Cooper allowed bail in the sum l e
of $250. Being unable to make
pastor of the first Baptist church at
this place, filled- his regular ap-
pointment here Sherday and Sun-
day and baptized one in the Young-
bood tank Sunday
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e “style” of dressing, and we will say that they’ve never been
6 embraced with a better opportunity than the one which we
e are now just about to bestow in their behalf, fur we are daily
a} receiving and opening up the largest
go to the table for his meals.
Grandma Clough is still very
low.
Union Grove Notes.
Union Grove, Texas, May 19,—
As we have been so busy chopping
cotton for the past two weeks we
have not heard of any news to
write, nor had time to write it if
we had.
We were visited by all kinds of
candidates last week
Crops are looking fine in these
parts.
Everybody chopping cotton.
Dock Cole, the cattle man. is
looking after his interest here this
week.
The young men of this commu-
nity will organize a debating socie-
ty Saturday night. Everybody is
respectfully invited to attend.
Oats will soon be ready to cut
and are looking fine.
Ed BUCKLE.
\K ANTED—Several persons for
YY district Office Managers in this
state to represent me in their own
and surrounding counties. Willing
to pay yearly $600, payable weekly.
Desirable emplovment with unusual
opportunities. References exchang-
ed. Enclose self-addressed stomped
envelope. H. A. Park, 320 Caxton
Building, Chicago, Illinoise.
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bail he was placed in jail to feast
his eyes upon the beauties of the
brick building.
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chincry at this place.
Due Millsaps returned Monday
evening from his girl’s house
in Marshall.
8. P. Berry, who has been down
To rly Friends:
Canton, Texas, May 26. 1900.—
Ah county court convenes June 4th,
it will be impossible for me to make
any more speeches, besides I could
reach but few people that way. My
record is before the people, I have
done my duty. I have tracked the
law; I have mistreated no one. I
have stood up for what I believe
right, not yielding to any of the
corrupting influences that seek to
control public officials; if this will
not win for me a second term, noth-
ing that I might say will do it.
Now, in conclusion, permit me
to urge you, .my friends, to be dil-
igent, be cautious, refrain from say-
ing anything that will intensify
the feeling already existing, and for
which I am not responsible, no
matter how falsely and maliciously
I may be misrepresented. Remem-
ber that the success of the demo-
cratic party, the party of justice,
the party of human liberty and free
government, is of far more impor-
tance than the success of any one
man.
If a man does his whole duty, he
baa within his soul that which is
worth more than all the world’s
applause and the God of justice will
never forsake that man.
Your friend,
11. P. Davis.
Has A Mouse That Sings.
Temple, Tex.. May 16.—(Special
to the Enterprise.)—Mrs, M. E.
Marshall of Brownwood is visiting
in the city. Mrs. Marshall is own-
er of the celebrated singing mouse
that has attracted so much atten-
tion in this part of the State. Hun-
dreds of persons have heard the
wonderful creature and there are
stacks of reliable testimony to the
effect that the mouse does sing in a
very musical voice and a variety of
notes that places it on a par with
the canary bird. Mrs. Marshall has
the mouse with her.
Alamo Institute Closes.
We are requested to announce
that the Alamo Institute at
Ben Wheeler will close Wed-
needay, June 6th. The exercises
of the day will consist of two medal
contests, the Degraffenried medal in
the morning and a medal given by
the faculty in the afternoon. The
Special Low Rates Via T. & P. to Elks Street
Fair, Dallas, rAy 2:Sth to June 3rd.
Pre-eminently the most magnif-
icent surroundings, and the most
costly and interesting attractions
ever before seen in Texas. The
choieest acts, and the most expen-
sive performers that have ever ap-
peared on the boards in Chicago
’Opera House, Koster & Bials, New
York, and the theatres comprising
Keith’s Circuit, specially imported
to Texas for this occasion at an
enormous expense.
Free concerts each afternoon and
’ night by Criswell’s Military Band.
The World’s Fair Midway surpass-
Prof Jnu. W. Miller of Jackson, ef
for ssome time with sciatic-rheuma H, Singing at Holly Springs next
ti8m, is improving. He ie able to
Get your Envelopes, Letter
Heads, Statements, etc. printed at
f he Enterprise job office. We fix
it right.
Union Hill Sunday.*."Mess. Dave,I
Tom and John Hubbard, Jno. Wj
Miller, E. M. Vinson and John
Gray attended an Old Harp sing-
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Gid Breen’s shoe shop during the Hub Monday and reported the fol-
lowing news items: Singing at
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ing at Rome, Henderson county,
Sunday and had a most pleasant
and enjoyable time "."John Hub-
bard found his little girl, Dovie,at
Alto, Rusk county, on Welnesday
of last week and brought her home,
It will be remembered that when
Mr. Hubbard and his wife separa-
ted the law allowed him to take
their boys and her to take the girl
and keep till ten years of age, pro-
vided her conduct was good. A
trial will be held at Kaufman Sat-
urday in which Mr. Hubbard will
try to get legal authority to keep
Lost the 5th Sunday in last
month somewhere between Mar
tin’s Mill and Canton a heavy
black overcoat. Will thank any-
one for any information concern-
ing same.—J. D. Hollis, Canton,
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MAN-EATERS OP THB BEA.
Forty-Five Sailors Eaten hy Shurka in
the Paoldo Ocean
Washington Star: “Clark Russen or
Robert Stevenson had in one of their
sea romances described the wrecking
of a whip, the upsetting of life rafts
by shoals of ravenous sharks and the
devouring of forty-five of the crew
they would have, indeed, been termed
romancers by the public," said a form-
er captain in the Pacific Mail service,
'yet this was the unhappy fate of the
crew of the British ship Hupeh, wreck-
ed recently in the China seas.
' People here and along the eastern
sen-coast do not know what sharks are.
as oompared with the huge and vora-
•lone man-eaters of tropical waters.
Whenever a good-sized shark is seen
off one of the Now Jersey coast re-
sorts it is made a matter of news in
the press and timid people 'won’t
lathe’ in oonsequenoe. In the warm
waters of the tropical Pacific they
flourish to enormous else, and tn the
harbors swerm around the Pacifc Mail
steamers in schools like gigantic min-
nows. It is actually terrifying to lean
over the steamer's rail and watch these
blood thirsty tigers of the sea glide
through the still waters, fighting like
demons for scraps of ship's refuse
thrown overboard by the cooka, in
the harbor, landlocked and placid, of
Acapulco, on the west Mexican coast,
they are as thick almost as salmon
In the Columbia. The third engineer
apd a fireman on one of the vessehs I
commanded were returning to the
steamer one afternvon, both a trife
under the infuenco of stimulanta Tn
some manner they capsize the email
boat in which they wore rowing, and,
before my eyes and thoee of the crew
and passengers on the dock, were
sucked down in a whirlpool by the
sharks, the straw bat of the engineer
alone floating beside the upturned
boat to tel tho tale of their untimely
end. It was a homitying. pulse- stop-
ping sight Every sailor on board of
Pacifc vessels knowa that one of the
most terrible of deaths awaits him f
he falls overboard when the vessel is
lying tn harbor. In the Atlantic ocean
his chances of being saved are good."
The young people of Canton enjoy-
ed a strawberry supper Friday night
at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. Hubbard.
P. M. Board of Edgewood paid
the Enterprise a call Saturday
afternoon and subscribed for the
great religious, moral and agricult-
ural weekly. Mr. Board is a can-
didate for constable of that pre-
cinct.
J.E. Persons of Grand Saline was
in the Hub Thursday last on busi-
ness and paid the ENTERPRISE a
call. Mr. Persons is one of the
finest business men in the county
and is building up a trade second
to none.
Normal Music School.
To be held at Ben Wheeler, Tex.,
commencing Monday, July 2, 1900,
and continuing for a term of 15
days, closing with a grand concert.
J. D. Vernon, Principal.
M18s Grace Sanders, Organist.
L. L. Sanders, Secretary. 4t.
Ben Wheeler Siltings.
Special Correspondence.
Ben Wheeler, Tex., May 21.—
F. Sanders and wife visited in
Edom Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Bussey Todd of Timpson is
visiting her sister, Mrs. J.P. Downs,
of this place.
"ev. Joiner of Martin’s Mill,
Prof. Jno. W. Stanford willclose
his school at the Moore school
house, five miles east of town, on
the 31st inst. The exercises will
commence at 4 o’clock in the after-
noon and will consist of addresses
on education. Exhibition at night.
The public is invited to attend.
We are authorized to announce
Doc Knox of Canton as a candidate
for constable of precinct No. 1,sub-
ject to tho action of the voters out-
side of that precinct. No others so-
licited.—Van Zandter. Mr. Knox
is making an extensive campaign
and we do not doubt but what he
will get there.
Mr. W. R. Morris and Miss Annie
Woodson of near Grand Saline
drove over to the court house Mon-
day and submitted to a legal pro-
cess by virtue of which they became
husband and wife. They were
bright, intelligent young people
and the Enterprise wishes them
a smooth sail over the billowy sea
of life.
S.D. Waldriphas received his
commission and supplies as census
enumerator for district No. 125,
which includes the southern part
of Canton precinct. Walter Utts
gets district No. 124, which takes
in the northern part of this precinct.
Jno. W. Stanford gets district No.
126, which takes theterritory south-
east of this place.
Will M. Barber of Martin’s Mill
had business in the Hub the front
part of this week and called on the
Old Reliable while here. He direct-
ed u? to have the Dallas News sent
to his address. He informed us
that the Pops had a precinct con-
vention on the 12th inst. and put
out M. L. McWilliams for constable,
W. W. Griffin for justice of the
peace, and W. P. Sides for com-
missioner.
Will Todd of Grand Saline was
in the Hub Monday and paid the
Enterprise a call. Mr. Todd has
been clerking for J. E. Porsons &
Co. for the past three years. A few
days ago he voluntarily gave up
his position to accept a clerkship
under Shepperd & Kelly, a new
firm at Grand Saline, where he will
begin work the first of next month.
Will is a bright young man, well
equipped for business and his num-
erous friends at this end of the
line wish him success in all his
worthy effort?.
Fred Tripp of near Grand Saline
and L. C. Cooper of Kansas made
an assault last Thursday evening
on Mrs. Emma Adams of near Hat-
ton while she was washing clothes.
She trailed away at them with her
“battling stick” and gave an alarm
which caused some of the citizens
to come to her rescue. News of
the dastardly affair was dispatched
to Sheriff Rusk who went immedi-
€ Small that count. It’s the little individualities of dress that
€ give a look of distinction to the well dressed man. Our
e stock abounds in just such articles. A man’s apparel pro-
e8 claims his character, and in our Clothing Department their
e is a distinction about it tha defies imitation.
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Don’t mention them! What is the use of original ideas if a
2 a woman can’t find the materials to carry them out. We
2 pride ourself upon the variety and moderate price of Dress
88 Goods.
Mrs. Ennis Peace returned home
Sunday.
Judge Jno. 8. Spinks visited
Dallas last week.
Dr. Sewell of Myrtle Springs
was in the city Saturday.
Prof. Ben L. Cox visited relatives
at Martin’s Mill Sunday.
County Clerk Davis made a trip
to Grand Saline Saturday.
Dock Knox and lady visited
Grand Saline last Thursday.
Judge T. R. Yantis attended
court in Cleburne this week.
Julius Castleberry of Martin’s
Mill was in the city Saturday.
Cal Russell of Royce is visiting
his mother of this place this weeK.
District Clerk Craft and Sheriff
Rusk visited Wills Point Saturday.
“Uncle” Thomas Hill of Edge-
wood was in the Capital Thursday
last.
Hon. H. C. Geldie of Mineola
was in the Hub Saturday on legal
business.
Commissioner T. L. Tapley of
Edom was in to see us while in the
Hub last week.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Tull are
visiting their daughter, Mrs. Lula
Anderson of Sherman.
Miss Mable Cheatham and little
Richard odam of Edgewood visited
in the Capital Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Lee Flowers of
Grand Saline visited in Canton
Sunday, the guest of Mrs. Alex
Burge and family.
Mrs. Sallie Wyatt has returned
from Smith county, where she has
been teaching school, to her home
at Myrtle springa.
Miss Tillie and Mr. Charley
Evans of Terrell came in Sunday
and are spending the week with
relatives and friends in Canton.
Gid Breco, M. L. Taylor, D. D.
Thames and family, and Miss Nora
Btillings started yesterday by pri-
vate conveyance for an extended
trip to southwest Texas.
called in to see us while in the
Houston Post, “
St. Louis Republic,
Farm & Ranch......
Texas Farmer......
Home & Farm.....
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has just finished**^ .loud ftud carr’’ • 1 -k- in and placed them in jail. An
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Sanders, M. G. Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 1900, newspaper, May 24, 1900; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585400/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.